White House Finds Hope in Reagan Analogy

[RoboPoster]

White House Finds Hope in Reagan Analogy
                                       

 Dan Balz, Washington Post
Throughout this long year, President Obama's advisers have sometimes looked to Ronald Reagan for comparison and inspiration. If the Gipper could survive a deep recession, low approval ratings and an adverse midterm election in his first two years and win reelection handily two years later, then Obama could easily do the same, they reason.Obama's presidency has looked like Reagan's in some broad ways. Both men succeeded unpopular presidents of the opposite party. Both offered big and bold plans -- Reagan with massive tax cuts, Obama with a massive stimulus package and national...

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/08/22/white_house_finds_hope_in_reagan_analogy_240181.html

[R.R.]

Robo Cop,

Fox News showed a graph the other day showing Obama's poll numbers during his first 18 months almost exactly correlate with those of Jimmy Carter, not Ronald Reagan. Obama is nother like Reagan. Reagan got us out of bad economic times with tax cuts. Obama wants to grow the size of government to socialist proportions and seemingly wants to keep unemployment high. He is going to be a one term president.

[BT]

I took the column to mean that Obama is worried more about himself than he is in losing the majorities in the House and Senate, if that is indeed the outcome of 2010.